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The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
SIZE WANTED TO KNO 4
ALL ABOUT 1T.

so You joined the Masons to
light, did your So you could
nave another loaling place to go
to at nights Instead Of remaining
home with me eh?' said Mr..
Shriukem's gentle half on his re.
turn from "the LODGE"
esn, my dear" he meekly re.
Piled.
"Well, thea" You just set your
self down in that chair AMI tell me
every word and action you've been
through with before you 90 to he'd
tonight;Fve always wanted to know
about these Free Masons fcllers
and III see what kinds accompany
you are going to keep in the fu-
true. Don't you lie to me either.
AS the head OF his family, I've got
4 character to maintain; and | don
want Won to begin to drag it in
the dust Icy coming home at all
hours Of the morning with your
shoes tied together aud hanging
round your neck for the neighbors
to laugh at. No, sir; the first time
you are out late again, you stay
oututil daylight. You give to me
that night key this minute before
l forget it. :"
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
shoot You on sishE

This was total surprise to tha
yonng couple, who had anticipa-
ted no trouble in gaining the oil
maa's CONSENT. An elopemeat
was soon planned.
the young lover, accompanied
BY his brother Siuoo and a friend,
came to town On the 25th of Au-
gust, secured marriage license.
and waiting until night role out
to Douglass residence. On near.
Ing tie gate Boz gave tie signal
agreed on, but no answer was
returned simon, his brother,
volunteered to creep aro5ni to The
g'dPs w;1low and see what wss
Che natter. TIE young man had
not taken dozen steps before
ArcA!a DoUelass stepped
f,rn the sha lows OF The hoase and
Wi'h'nt spoa1ias presented a
double bagraIcl sh35 gun sl.l at
nls 1roast and pa.lsd tae Ga;aI
trigger. The .ua missed f,o, and
before DDuElass could try The 9th
or barrel, the young man had
drawn arcvolvor ana seat bullet
through his heart. Douglyss sank
70 the ground dead, and the young
men mounted their horses, rode 70
towa and surrendered themselves.
When court came on a change
NJ vcaue was taken to Calhoun
county. This delayed the trial for
year, and il was not until this
term the boys had to answer the
charge Of murder in first degree.
The jury brought in verdict Of
iustii1ble homicide, and the two
brothers were at oace discharged.
Immediately Bob Woodward
arose from his seat, made lis way
through the crowd Of spectators to
where a yelled female sat, and OK
tending his arm to her led Ter
back with him until both were fac
ing the Judge, when, Woodward
presenting the license he had pass,
ed a year before, asked to be mar
ried. The Judge soon tied the
young couple, who accompanied
by a cheering mob, repailed to their
home.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
Tie Sweet Potato Crop.

As a rule sweet potatoes ought
to be harvested as soon as fully
matured, though very general
practice is to begin digging the
tuhers directly after the first frost.
If there should be any dquot as to
whether the potato are fully ripe
or not, cut open few specimens
If the cut dries white the tubers
are ready to harvest; if dark,
they ought to be lett in the ground
little logger. Where one has
a potato digger this is used. but
harvesting the crop is oftenest
done with turning plow.
In storing sweet potatoes, no
matter by what mode, an all-lm>
portant point il their keeping i.
dryness and protection from IN.
due cold, with some means of ven,
tilation at the same time. In the
South a usual plan is to bury the
potatoes in heaps or bank. Large
growers in colder climates use
houses made with double walls in
closing a packing of sawdust.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
Great Advantages.

Arkapsaw Traveller.
The boon spirit has taken such
possession Of the West that people
who-are looking tor locations have
become accustomed to II exag-
geration.
Do you want to sell yoar farm?,
was asked of an old fellow.
Wouldn't mind IL
Land rich?'
Creams pore compared VITA il
Observation-Disclosures
Amt noboly died here git. Col
Gruu3er's son died some time ago
in Texas an they fotoh him home
to bury him, an diagel If he did,
Mt get well before ;Aey got tarouga
with the funeral Sermon
Etmast be b,a!sAfal.
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low soin' long yaaIa-?.
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Walks pretty well, done hog
'7urst rate.
Wall, I know something about
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am prepared Tor almost anything,
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The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

Mr.. B T Wilder sent from his
suburban farm, into the city, ten
bales of his hay crop yesterday.
The hay was baled in a regular hay
baling machine and was the size
and form OF the Western hay bales.
1t was a cheering sight to see a
wagon load of Southwest Georgia
hay in bales being hauled into the
city, and is an eloquent comment
airy on the changed condition and
indeas Of our people
Mr.. Wilder has 100 of thes bales
which he will store in the city.
The bales will average 100 pounds
each, which makes 10000 pounds
of Georgia cured-hay.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
Worst Kind Of Drunk.

Sail a well-known travelling man
from New York, now stopping at
the Maxwell house: 4 came here to
sober up. Don't smile. Il is fact.
About twice year | set upon
what;s called a spree.
Usually it last only four or five
days, but this time | renaiaed in
the probationary OF Atlanta on a
three weeks drunk. With the
intention Of SOLDERING up, tried
to drink beer but it was 50 warm
and vile that | had to turn again
to whisky, and that was so abom-
Unable that two or three drinks of
il would set me crazy. Positively,
it was impossible for me to remain
there and get sober. ! have been
here four days, taking a few glasses
Of good beer each day, and am
ali right again Tor nounths to
come"
But how did you get whisky
in Atlanta"
"Heavens! Don't ask me how |
got it, but rather ask why was
such a fool as to drink the terrible
stuff they handle there now"
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

Some one in Iowa has introduce
ed to notice a new fuel which de-
stined to take the place of coal in
the prairie countries, The fuel Is
made by grinding cOrnstalks and
coarse prairie grs.ss together, mois
tening them, and then pressing the
pulps into blocks about twelve
inches long and four inches thick.
These blocks are then dried. 1t is
claimed that one block viii give an
hours steady heat, and that the
fuel can be produced for SO per
ton.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

The defense Of a woman on trial
in Greenburg, Ind, for killing her
husband is that she was made crazy
by finding, in his pockets, love let.
tiers written by a widow signing
herself Jennie James.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

The Southern cotton trade du-
ring the season just closed is pro-
nounced by the New Orlean Plea
yune the largest ever known. The
nearest approach to ii was the sea,
son of lSS0.81, when almost 200.
600 bales less were handled. All
Ne wOrleans the increase of bust
ness last month as compared with
September, 1886, was in the neigh
borhood Of 100 per cent.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

A series Of experiments carried
on in France proves that the use
OF tobacco destroys the memory.
IFS man asks you for the load Of a
Y you should find ouC whether he
ch6ws or smokes.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

Charles Doll, Cincinnati, ex-
member of the Board Of Public
Works, was sentenced to two wears
in the penitentiary tor being inter-
e5ted in a horse contract.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

Recent gold discoveries ia the
western edge Of the Superstition
maintains, Arizona, are said to be
very valuable. One lead s feet
wide assays fran S12 to $39, 80.
per ton.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
As my son is goil
ST

= NJ 9III - -VtU1
INTO the insurance business on the
LIST. Of next month, ] shall hereafter
place my business in his hands ="
Had it been winter, and l had
thrown it into the fire, l would not
have been able to square it with
in o week.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
outs Globe Democrat.

-. Louis Globe Democrat.
SAID a married man; | wqat to
meet the man who writes para
graph IN an Easton newspaper
about etiquette and which IS called
de ri3ge'r in social life. About a
yearago he said that square eavel
opes with q monogrum seal were
the proper thing. | am in the
insurance business and gotta great
deal Of mail. Every day now 7
get one or more strictly business
communications in tinted square
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

If you have been guilty of MUIR
der and are very sick, don't take
the doctors word for it that YOU
are going to die and had better
confess. Three or four chaps have
done that within a year and lived
to be hung,
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

A farmer OF Los Angeles has
obtained verdict for $3.50 dau>
ages against the California South.
crn road, for hay set on fire and.
destroyed by sparks trem q loco.
motive.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

The price Of cod-liver oil has de,
cllDed forty per cent. in two years.
The reason is that druggists have
found a substitute in cotton .seed
oil, which seems to do eonsump-
tives just as much good. ~'@'.'
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

Jefferson county, KY, bragg
that it costs only twenty-six dollars
to hang murderer there. The
cheapness of this method of
reform is wonderfully enticing.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

a Cleveland man fell from a
scaflold a distance Of 70 feet at s
O'Clock in the afternoon and was
married at 8 in the evening. Ohio
people come from a tough old
stock.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

1t is said that the sultan of TurS
key is DESTROYS Of a personal inter
view with Queen Victoria and
Emperor William, and will soon
visit London and Berlin.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

A Jersey city clerk who was
clught stealing pair of shoes the
other DAY, coolly owned to the fact
that he had robbed his employer
OF W, 600 worth OF goods in the
last five years.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

A white horse in Michigan is ats
tracing attention without the aid
Of rcd-headed girls. He visits a
saioon every day for his glass Of
beer and gets it.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
RECKLESSLY HAPPY.

From tie Chicago Herald.
Whatever ills betalI me now,
Whatever woes 5etide me,
One memory / have, | trow,
To comfort and to guide me.
Let poverty and want assaiI,
Let fame refuse her glancas,
! VIII not let my courage fail
I've shaken hands with Frances.
Let al my trusted friends desert,
Let Fortune iair fly from me,
] Of her I love he proud and pert.
NY faimoat not become me,
Let ne be ever aeepi4 debt,
Let friend: refuse advances,
Let dark c'ui5 lower III not
forget
I've ahatca hands w,ta Frances.
Let confess nromisaory notes
Come dao when unexpected,
Nay every Girl who on NE do.es
BE stre;Ga.wa5 disl:iaotel.
WheHeer I seek IN hairess' hand.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

A granite tile 800 years old, ia.
ken from the tomb of William the
Conqueror, at Caen, Normandy, is
on exhibition in a show-window at
Detroit.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

There are 200 Chautauqua circles
in Michigan, with over $500 mems
bers and five hundred graduates
Michigan is the only State in the
Union which has a State Cbautaul
qua society.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
ODD FEIINvC


V'IY GOVERNMENT
a mayor VIM. Kaigler,
llI,'lnen w 9 Kendrick, w
ln IIsn'9 "a G Deubler, J A
Sork-J L James.
1 ,e%5uror-F W Clark.
Do usual A Hatcher.
\ y ~! OlG2rshall-John b Roberts
\ foD DSl :. o,verseer-Niek Kenney
le o5uoll meotsfrst Monday night
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26
Treasurer u LANG
Surveyor-J f Waller
Coroner-,Tohn Daniel
Coun'y Farm Supply II Cams
marn
LEGION OF HONOR.

Leel Council, No 795-" i
Me, Commander: J G Dean, Sec>
r2tary; Mrs, i i Mi1e, Treasurer;
Meets 2nd 2n1 18th Monday night
in each month.
TERRELL COUNCIL, No G91,
Rov.i hrchanum Chas DauLler,
Regent; I X Hannah, Secretary
.da"+s LIST and 3rd Frid2y night in
ea1h month.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

OF a seedy guest at a summer
hotel it was said that he arrived
without any luggage except
ba@s in the knees of his trousers
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

}nv. T " DAVIS, P stot.
The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-10-26

A. NJ. Z. CHURCH.

REV. T 4 BRANcH. Pastor.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05
SENATOR GIBsoN's VIEWS.
Shreveport Times.

In our issue of yesterday appeared az
| interview had in the city of Washing
ton by representative of the Things
with Senator Gibson, of this Sta&.
| This interview discloses fully the posi-
ton OF our senior Senator in the State
contest to be fought this year. He
does not dodge, or hedge, or evade, but
takes his stand firmly i'll favor OF Gov.
| Nichols.
We commend the views of Senator
Gibson to those of our contemporaries
who believe that personaism in the
State government of Louisiana should
| be brought to AN end. The contest is
one of principles and not OF persons,
and the more clearly this view Is pre-
scented, the more free will the campaign
be from abuse and viliticatlon. Gov.
McEnery is gentleman and Demo-
only as IMPLYING diametrically oppo-
Site policies in the administration of the
affairs of the State. Gov. McEnery be-
lieves his friends should rule; Gen.
Nichols believes the people should
rule. This is the distinction between
the two men now most prominently
mentioned for the governOrshlp.
Some of the friends of Gen. Nichols
persist in charging Gov. McEDery with
species of personal wrong doing.
With this it is needless to say we have
not an atom of sympathy. Gov. Nc
Emery is not a dishonest man; he is
not robber, nor a scoundrel, nor any
thing approaching these. He is an add
ministrator of the State government
who believes honestly and sincerely
that when the people want A for ex-
ample) as police juror, and the COVER
nor's friends want B, that the latter
should receive the appointment. Gen.
Nichols believes that the choice of the
people should be the choice of the
governor. This is the matter in nut
shell, as typitied by the appointments
OF the two gentlemen named during
their respective terms of office.
We have depressed somewhat from
Senator Gibson's utterances in the in
terview quoted, but what we have here
outlined Is, in his opinion, We are sure,
the line upon which the battle will be
fought. 1t will be a contest of prin-
ciples and policies, not of persons and
places.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05
THE GOVERNOR AND THE FORD
PARDON

Editor of the Item There is good
deal of sentimental gush about Gov; Nc
Enery's promise to pardon DR.. Ford,
when, in fact, he has nothing to say
about it more than any other citizen,
except that he records the decision OF
the board of pardons.
At least this is the position which he
has heretofore assumed and shielded
himself behind when public sentiment
condemned the pardons which turned
obnoxious criminals loose to resume
their depredations on society.
Surely the Governor ought not to be
given credit for any act Of clemency
which may meet with general common
dation, and dodge out of all accounta.
bility for those that are Objectionable
And any attempt on his part, or by his
friends, to do so, strikes the writer as
not only in very bad taste. but in the
nature Of an insult to the distinguished
officials composing the board whose ac.
ton it is thus sought to anticipate.
Very Truly Yours,
A COUNTRY LAWYER.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05
THE MOVEMENT FOR DIR. FORDS
PARDON
n. o. Chronicle.

We hear that Judge Roman has not
given the friends of DR.. Ford any en-
couragement thai he will sign the
recommendation for his pardon, and
that the Attorney General hesitates and
delays until he can have the record and
the evidence before him.
The friends of DR.. Ford, and never
did a man have warmer friends, regret
the publication by the Shreveport Times
of the letter of Governor McEnery, in
which he regrets bis lack Of power to
grant a pardon in such case, and de-
cares that if he had that power he
would have pardoned DR.. Ford before
conviction.
The Governor must have written this
letter under a chivalric impulse, which
must have blinded for the moment his
better judgment and sense of judicial
duty.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05
A STORY OF A KISS
Chamber journal.

A Circassian was walking along one
road and woman along another. The
roads finally united into one, and reach
ing the point of juncture at the same
time, they walked on together. The
man was carrying large iron kettle on
his back in one hand he held the legs
of live chicken. in the other a cane,
and he was leading goat. They
neared dark ravine. Said the wo-
man 8" | am afraid to go through that
ravine with you it is lonely place,
and you might overpower me and kiss
me by force" Said the man: How
can possibly overpower You and kiss
you by force when | have this great
iron kettle on my back, a cane in one
nand, a live chicken in the other, and
am leading this goat? | might as we'll
be tied hand foot" YES" replied the
woman "but if you stick your cane in
the ground and tie your goat to 1t, and
turn the kettle bottom side up, and put
the chicken under it, then you might
wickedly kiss me in spite OF my resls-
tance.n Success to thy ingenuity,
Oh woman - said the rejoicing man to
himself Il should never have thought
of this or similar expedients." AND
when they came to the ravlne lie stuck
his cane into the ground, and tied the
goat to it, and gave the chicken to the
woman, saying: Hold it while | cut
some grass for the goat" and then-so
runs the legend-lowering the kettle
from his shoulders he put the fowl un-
der it and wickediy kissed the woman,
as she was afraid be would.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05

Our contemporaries are sadly III
error with regard to the decision of
the Supreme Conrt on the razor as
a concealed weapon. The court de-
clared that a razor simply carried
on the person without intent to use
same as weapon, did not come
within the purview of the statute.
A razor carried as a weapon does
come within the meaning of the
law, and the Supreme Court will
doubtless so declare when the ques-
ton is Observation-Disclosures
Times.
The Times is usually right upon
most questions, but upon this sub
iect it is entirely off its base. The
razor case" above referred to, was
appealed from Judge W. P. Halls
Court, and the case was test case
to procure a decision of the Su-
preme Court. Judge Hall decided
that " a razor when carried as an
article of toilet, was not a danger
Gus weapon within the meaning of
the law" but that "When carried
as weapon it was a dangerous
weapon with the meaning of the
law The Supreme Court reversed
Judge Halls decision and plainly
decided that a razor is not q
dangerous weapon
Geo. Culbertson, a negro, is now
in our parish jail, charged with an
Assault with a dangerous weapon,
with intent to MURDER but as the
Supreme Court has decided that
"a razor is not dangerous weap-
on,' he can only be tried for AS
sault and Battery, although he
disemboweled another negro with
one stroke of a razor.-DeSoto
Democrat.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05

We would not favor any basis of re-
presentation which would disfranchise
any Democrat. whatever be his race or
color. We do not, however, favor
representation based on vote which is
obtained by ballot-bo stuffing. If the
white Democrats of the river parishes
can induce the colored citizens to vote
the Democratic ticket they deserve
credit for so doing and should be en-
couraged to continue in the work; but
if the colored citizens do not vote the
Democratic ticket, but are only made to
appear to do SO by ballot box stutfing,
we say that such a vote should not be
made the basis of representation.
What are the facts? Does any body
believe that Tensas actually fairly
polled thirty Ell ght hundred votes for
McEnery? We do not.-Homer Jour
nal,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05

John McEnery is the largest land
owner in the United States. it not in
the world. Tt was all acquired from
the state of Louisiana under the cele.-
brated contract about which so much
was said few years since. The State
received only nominal services Tor the
fifty-nine thousand two hundred ana
eighty-five acres of land that have al
ready passed into the hands of John
McEnery, and John has not more than
commented to draw his share of the
spoils. AS the Ouachita Telegraph re-
marks, politics some times do pay."-
Homer Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05

Servant girls, says the Springfield
(Mass.) Union, should never throw sand
into the kitchen stove. 1t is apt to
deadeD the fire, but sometimes has the
contrary effect. Susan Quinn, of Horse
sand into the kitchen fire Sunday night,
and she has not been able to find the
stove since. 1t was also very difficult
for the folks to find Susan and put her
together again.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05

The pension business of this govern
ment is becoming enormous. About
eighty millions of dollars are paid out
annually in pensions. 1t is estimated
that it requires the production of nearly
four hundred thousand people to pay
our pensions. This is a large number
of persons to be employed to pay the
it is over. 1t is time for the pension
business to stop-Louisana Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05

The muses. in ring combine for once
together, the diction throughout
marches finely parallel with the thought.
In the last and greatest, the browning
product of his genius he took new de-
parture in his style. Powerful as his
other romances are they are all sur
passed by this his greatest and best and
last achievement. VIATOR.